Hunger, family homelessness on the rise in the US

Homelessness and Hunger of US Families

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YAS has been out at the local Stater Bros and Ralph’s collecting food for tomorrows Thanksgiving dinner giveaway to the 700 families. We need 4oo more turkeys by tomorrow. If you want to donate, please let YAS know. The address is 3526 E. Chapman Ave.  The cross streets are Chapman and Prospect behind the Carl’s Jr. There will be a turkey drop off. Thank you!

Skylar giving out a community flyer....

Andrew at the local Ralph's

Filling up the van with all the food donated

The Church full of Thanksgiving Food

Taylor loading the Van

The City of Orange, Tustin and Santa Ana community responded well!

Linda sharing the request with the community.

One of the Tables in front of Stater Bros.

Kim and Abby were outstanding at collecting food!

All of us who collected food for the low-income and those out of work were very blessed by the response in our community. The City of Orange, Santa Ana and Tustin responded to the need. It inspired many of us to continue to help those in need. Thank you!

~You Are Special Team

Los Angeles-area leaders urged to better coordinate food programs

With an estimated 1 million residents struggling to put food on the table, a coalition creates a blueprint to address the problem. But one group said better utilization of a federal program is key.

By Duke HelfandNovember 24, 2009

 

Article Here…

Food is Power

Published on Monday, September 7, 2009 by TruthDig.com

Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

by Chris Hedges

Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow corporations to determine what we eat, as well as how food is harvested and distributed, then we will become captive to rising prices and shortages and increasingly dependent on cheap, mass-produced food filled with sugar and fat. Food, along with energy, will be the most pressing issue of our age. And if we do not build alternative food networks soon, the social and political ramifications of shortages and hunger will be devastating.

Food is Power and the Powerful is poisoning it

Hidden Pockets of Elderly experiencing poverty

Hidden pockets of elderly said to be in poverty

‘Still many millions of older people on the edge,’ AARP president says

Simon Norwood, a construction worker who hasn’t found work in months, poses in a garage apartment belonging to a friend in Little Rock, Ark.

updated 9:46 a.m. PT, Fri., Sept . 4, 2009

WASHINGTON – The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a half-century-old formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations in the cost of living.

Hidden Pockets of Elderly

Real Cities in Uneasy Truce with Tent Cities

naked capitalism: Real Cities in Uneasy Truce with Tent Cities

As the economy limps along, with jobs still falling (despite keen efforts to call a turn, and with the figures a bit more dodgy if you look under the hood), more and more overindebted and underemployed citizens are out on the street.

Reports of tent encampments or parking lots with cars that serve as shelter have been an occasional and sad sighting for more than a year. What is new is that some cities, with their shelters at their limits, have decided it is better to provide limited services to these colonies than try to send the occupants away.

From the Wall Street Journal:
Last summer, police responding to complaints about campfires under a highway overpass found dozens of homeless people living on public land along the Cumberland River.

Eviction notices went up — and then were suspended by Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, a Democrat, who said housing for the homeless should be found first.

Article Here

Cities Tolerate Homeless Camps

By JENNIFER LEVITZ

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Last summer, police responding to complaints about campfires under a highway overpass found dozens of homeless people living on public land along the Cumberland River.

Eviction notices went up — and then were suspended by Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, a Democrat, who said housing for the homeless should be found first.

A year later, little has been found — and Nashville, with help from local nonprofits, is now servicing a tent city, arranging for portable toilets, trash pickup, a mobile medical van and visits from social workers. Volunteers bring in firewood for the camp’s 60 or so dwellers.

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Josh Anderson for The Wall Street JournalJack Adkins sat in what he calls his “office” at his home in Tent City in Nashville.

Cities Tolerate Homeless Camps

Even Laguna Beach isn’t recession-proof

In the land of hillside mansions and ocean views, there are food banks. And the recipients aren’t all low-income families. Some are white-collar workers who have fallen on hard times.

Andy Siegenfeld, director of the Laguna Relief and Resource Center, says the center is serving more professionals. One such food recipient said, “I always thought I’d be fine, always be able to work and never thought that anything like this could happen.” (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times / August 7, 2009)

By Dana ParsonsAugust 13, 2009

Even Laguna Beach isn’t recession proof

Large layoffs begin to mount in O.C.

May 18th, 2009, 6:13 am · 4 Comments · posted by Mary Ann Milbourn

Orange County employers have announced nearly 1,100 layoffs in the last few weeks as another wave of job notices have gone out.

The Orange County Register’s 2009 layoff list now tops 8,800 jobs.  The list reflects mostly larger layoffs based on Worker Alignment and Retraining Notices (WARN) filed with the state, company announcements and job cuts independently verified by the Register.

The 1,084 local layoffs tallied in May is somewhat skewed because many of the 580 South Coast Medical Center workers in Laguna Beach who received pink slips may get picked up by Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center, which is acquiring the facility. Mission, however, has not determined which services will be continued at South Coast and how many workers it will need.

There were still several other significant workforce reductions ranging from healthcare to the Costa Mesa seller of retail electricity and natural gas.  Here are the latest major layoffs so far this month:

Large Layoffs in Orange County

US Families rely on handouts in world’s richest country

U S Families rely on Handouts

Working parents feed their children in soup kitchens as cost of living soars…..